Eros in Mourning: Homer to Lacan

ISBN-13: 9780801869990 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 248 str.

Henry Staten

Opis

Eros in Mourning begins with a reading of the Iliad that shows how Homer, not yet influenced by the ideology of transcendence, analyzes the structure of unassuageable mourning in a way that is as up-to-date as the latest poststructuralism. Then, in readings of Dante, Hamlet, La Princess de Cleves, Heart of Darkness, and Lacan, Staten depicts the -thanato-erotic- hysteria that is set off by the specter of the dead and decomposing body that is also the body of sexual love and which, in the -transcendentalizing- tradition, is more female than male. Yet, St. John, certain troubadours, and Milton offer glimpses of a more affirmative relation to -eros in mourning.-